HOLY CRAP! I just watched the trailer for Beowulf. Who is playing the title character - is it Gerard Butler? Brad Pitt? Daniel Craig? No. It’s Ray Winstone. Ray Winstone? The guy who played (excellently, by the way) a pudgy, wanting-to-retire gangster thug in Sexy Beast? Yes, that Ray Winstone. Except, I think they rebuilt him or something, because he is now SUPER SUPER HOT. Let’s examine the evidence, shall we?
Here’s a pic of lovable, teddy-bear bad guy Ray in Sexy Beast:
And here’s how Ray looks in Beowulf:
I mean, Christ on a cracker, what the hell happened here, am I right? HOT HOT HOT!
Except…it was done digitally. They’ve used some kind of digital mapping to turn Ray into a hardbody, which is…intriguing. Apparently the same technology is used to turn the weirdly fascinating (or perhaps it’s fascinatingly weird) Crispin Glover into Grendel, and Angelina Jolie into some sort of hooved temptress who rises out of a pool in a cave.
Far out.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Did you know Drew Barrymore was CGI’d in every scene in the last Charlie’s Angels to make her look better? hardy har har